All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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