One hour of love has a whole life in it.
HONORE DE BALZACWhere poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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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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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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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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