What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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