The more one judges, the less one loves.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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We love because we love.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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