Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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