True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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 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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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