To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue 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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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We love because we love.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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