Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
HONORE DE BALZACHe who best knows the world will love it least.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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