Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZACThe secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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