A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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