How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
HONORE DE BALZACTo be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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