A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
pain men
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
life wisdom
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
women
Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
talent beauty
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
beauty
happiness
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
men
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
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