Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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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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