A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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