We love because we love.
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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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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