Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
HONORE DE BALZACIn intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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