In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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 woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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