Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
HONORE DE BALZACOld 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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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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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 heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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