A mother who is really a mother is never free.
HONORE DE BALZACPower is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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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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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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