A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
HONORE DE BALZACAt fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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