Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
HONORE DE BALZACThe victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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We love because we love.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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