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.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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