Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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