Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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