A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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