Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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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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