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.
HONORE DE BALZACTemperament is the thermometer of character.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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