Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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