Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
HONORE DE BALZACWant him to be more of a man? Try being more of 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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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