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.
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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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