Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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