In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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