No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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We love because we love.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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