Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
HONORE DE BALZACEquality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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