Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
HONORE DE BALZACLike 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.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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