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 BALZACThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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