Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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 more one judges, the less one loves.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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