At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZACSolitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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We love because we love.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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