If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
HONORE DE BALZACTo be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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