Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.
Honore de BalzacMen are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.
Honore de Balzac