It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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