No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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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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