At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZACA courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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