The more you judge, the less you love.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman 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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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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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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.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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