One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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