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.
HONORE DE BALZACThere are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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