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.
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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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