Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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