A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
HONORE DE BALZACAll 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.
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We love because we love.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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