He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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