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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

Honore de Balzac

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
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
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
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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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
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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Feature Flower Intuition Persistence Small Thinking
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue 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
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

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