One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACNo man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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