Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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