There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
HONORE DE BALZACHe who best knows the world will love it least.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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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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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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