Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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