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- The more one judges, the less one loves.
- No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
- The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
- The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to…
- 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…
- Love is a game in which one always cheats.
- One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
- 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…
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
- 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…
- Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
- The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences…
- When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
- Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks,…
- It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
- A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she…
- My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one.
- 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,…
- Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws;…
- La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must…
- We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human…
- Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
- How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in…
- One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
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