One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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