He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
HONORE DE BALZACWhen Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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We love because we love.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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