A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZACGratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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