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.
HONORE DE BALZACA mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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