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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
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Love is a game in which one always cheats.
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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
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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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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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What is art? Nature concentrated.
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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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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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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