Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZACNo man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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