Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
HONORE DE BALZACFirst love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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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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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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