Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen, 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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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