No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
HONORE DE BALZACNo woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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