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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Honore de Balzac

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
It 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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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Children Family Intimate Life Moments Parents Willing
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
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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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
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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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird Woman
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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Food Hate Love Right Wrong

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