A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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