The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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