Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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