God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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 is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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