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• The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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  Women, Wife, Rooms

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. The Physiology of Marriage Meditation V, Aphorism 28

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• Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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  Half, Virtue

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• Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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  Lying, Greatest Fear, Anticipation

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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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  Love, Men, Play

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• Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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  Men, Yield, Sound

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• Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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  Struggle, Fate, Men

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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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  Love, Life, Heart

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• Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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  Art, Effort, Counterfeit

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• Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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  Fear, Hands, Together

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• Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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  Men, Despair, Literature

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• Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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  Money, Riches, Wealth

  "At the Sign of the Cat and Racket". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1830.

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• Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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  Pity, Charm, Sweetest

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• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

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  True Love, Love Is, What Is Love

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• The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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  Heart, Winning, Opportunity

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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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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

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  Heart, Hair, White

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Lily of the Valley”, p.152, The Floating Press

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• Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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  Angel, Men, Compassion

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• Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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  Marriage, Men, Feelings

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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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  Mother, Brother, Kings

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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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  Life, Drama, Men

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• Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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  Fever, Six, Eternity

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• Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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  Beauty, Falling In Love, Stupid

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• Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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  Men, Instinct, Born

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• Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

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  Happiness, Marriage, Couple

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