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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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