How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZACA naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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