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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Children Family Intimate Life Moments Parents Willing
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
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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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Feature Himself Man Woman
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
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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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird Woman
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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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
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.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
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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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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