Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
HONORE DE BALZACPhysically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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