A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
HONORE DE BALZACA lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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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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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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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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