The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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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.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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