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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Honore de Balzac

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Care Greatness Heart Man Mistake Tranquility
Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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