At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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