Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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