Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
HONORE DE BALZACLife is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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