The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Woman 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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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