A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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