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.
HONORE DE BALZACEvery moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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 intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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We love because we love.
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