First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZACOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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