In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
HONORE DE BALZACThe motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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We love because we love.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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