The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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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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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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