To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
HONORE DE BALZACCan you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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