Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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 heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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