One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACTalent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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