A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
HONORE DE BALZACThe first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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