Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
HONORE DE BALZACOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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 naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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