Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
HONORE DE BALZACWhat makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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