Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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