Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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