Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
HONORE DE BALZACAt fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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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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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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