When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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