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.
HONORE DE BALZACEverybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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 smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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