Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
HONORE DE BALZACIn intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Old 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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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 woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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