Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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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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