A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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