One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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We love because we love.
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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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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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