Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
HONORE DE BALZACThe duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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