In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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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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