A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
HONORE DE BALZACLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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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.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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