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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more you judge, the less you love.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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.
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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.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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