Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
HONORE DE BALZACWhen you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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