A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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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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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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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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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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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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