A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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