Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
HONORE DE BALZACForgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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