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 BALZACLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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