Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
HONORE DE BALZACWhen women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Love 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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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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