There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
HONORE DE BALZACA jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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 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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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 duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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We love because we love.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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