He who best knows the world will love it least.
HONORE DE BALZACEverybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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