It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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