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- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
- No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
- 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…
- A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
- 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…
- The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
- Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
- 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…
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
- 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…
- 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…
- It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as…
- 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…
- Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
- The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it…
- Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
- He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
- Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
- The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
- Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
- Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic…
- Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
- The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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