A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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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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