Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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