How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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