Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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