He who best knows the world will love it least.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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