Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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 smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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 man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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