A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
HONORE DE BALZACA mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Like 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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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