People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
HONORE DE BALZACA good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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