Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
HONORE DE BALZACA man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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We love because we love.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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