The more you judge, the less you love.
HONORE DE BALZACLike 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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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