Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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 duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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