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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.
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But does not happiness come from the soul within?
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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.
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Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?
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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
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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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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
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Vivacity is the health of the spirit.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Honore de Balzac
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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
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Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac