A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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