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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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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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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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 smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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