The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
HONORE DE BALZACA mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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We love because we love.
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