The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
HONORE DE BALZACIt 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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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