No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
HONORE DE BALZACCourtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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