All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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