Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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