Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
HONORE DE BALZACEquality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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