A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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 greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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