A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
HONORE DE BALZACMemories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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 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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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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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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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 be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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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.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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