Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACSome day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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