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Honore de
women keyboards study
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.
women advice chivalry
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one.
couple fighting blessing
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
powerful sin repentance
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
heart pride wife
She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.
inferiority modesty helping
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
spirit rebellious rebellion
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.
eccentricity
Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
audacity vices innocence
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
marriage men feelings
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
simple men secret
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.
moving secret affair
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
truth real war
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
strong queens prayer
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.