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.
HONORE DE BALZACHe has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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