There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZACCourtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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We love because we love.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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