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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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