Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
HONORE DE BALZACNo woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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