The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
HONORE DE BALZACIn intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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