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 BALZACWhat makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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