The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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