Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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We love because we love.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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