The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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