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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac

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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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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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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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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 mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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