Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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