Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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