A mother who is really a mother is never free.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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