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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.

Honore de Balzac

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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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