The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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