A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
The more you judge, the less you love.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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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