An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
HONORE DE BALZACWant him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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