The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
HONORE DE BALZACThough the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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