Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
HONORE DE BALZACThe first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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