Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
HONORE DE BALZACEquality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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