Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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It 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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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