A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
HONORE DE BALZACI can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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