A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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 mother who is really a mother is never free.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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