Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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