As a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACOur heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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It 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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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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