It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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 passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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