All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
HONORE DE BALZACIn diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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