One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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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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