Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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