A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
HONORE DE BALZACA naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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