Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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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.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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