Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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 courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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