To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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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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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 courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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