The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZACPoetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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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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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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