Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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