Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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 duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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