The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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