Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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