When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
HONORE DE BALZACVice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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