The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
HONORE DE BALZACAn unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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