There are certain wives whose confinement makes sarcastic celibates smile.
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Aphorisms by Honoré de Balzac
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Unfortunately her portrait will cure no one of the addiction to loving sweetly smiling angels with dreamy looks, innocent faces, and a strong-box for a heart.
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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. 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 penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.
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The most virtuous women have in them something that is never chaste.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
Since when societies exist, a government has always been an insurance contract signed between the rich and the poor.
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Posted by: Maria Schillaci
Being jealous is the height of selfishness.
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Posted by: Valeria Valentini
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You have brought me to a point where I don't know what I'm doing, I am inebriated by your words, your looks, from you entirely and I am ready for anything.
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