What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACTo be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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