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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A 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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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