The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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