Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZACHe who best knows the world will love it least.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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