At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZACOld 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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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