A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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