Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
HONORE DE BALZACPassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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 man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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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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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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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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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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