Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
HONORE DE BALZACIf 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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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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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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