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

Honore de Balzac

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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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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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We love because we love.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Death Expectation Man True
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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time Woman
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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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
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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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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