If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more you judge, the less you love.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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