Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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