A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZACOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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