No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
HONORE DE BALZACSolitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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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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