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.
HONORE DE BALZACPhysically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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