A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
HONORE DE BALZACMan is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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