When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
HONORE DE BALZACHow natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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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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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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