One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACThough 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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We love because we love.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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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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