Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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 closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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