The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
HONORE DE BALZACIf 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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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 mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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