Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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