Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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We love because we love.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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