If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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