Honore de Balzac. Pebbled leather (№ 39677)

Women in the power of any particular mindset, usually see the man of talent only his shortcomings, but in the fool - only its advantages; the advantages of a fool they have a lot of sympathy, because they flatter their own shortcomings, the happiness that they can give a gifted man, standing above them, not reimburse them for its imperfections. They all look to their lovers as a means to satisfy their own vanity. Themselves - that's who they love in us!