The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
HONORE DE BALZACIn the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Can 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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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