To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
HONORE DE BALZACLike hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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All 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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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