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 BALZACThe 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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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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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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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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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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