A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
HONORE DE BALZACAll human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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