A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman 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.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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