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0|2|There is no happiness without clouds.#
0|9|Happiness flees the one who seeks it.#
0|162|From this moment, I will know how to make a second of happiness last. One has to live it as if it were the last: happiness waits for no man.#
0|80|A major obstacle to happiness, is expecting a too great happiness.#
0|138|One is never as unhappy as one thinks nor as happy as one would have hoped.#
0|59|A man enjoys the happiness he feels, and a woman that which she gives.#
0|66|In the happiness of others, I seek my own.#
0|71|The happiest man is he who makes many others happy.#
0|130|Happiness is to be happy, it is not making others believe that one actually is.#
0|190|Men would be much happier if they heard less about happiness.#
1|0|There is nothing easier than meeting and joining together staying together and living in peace, now that's the real challenge.#
1|0|Marriage is like a walled-town under siege: those on the outside want to get in and those on the inside want to get out.#
1|2|To make a good marriage, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind.#
1|69|A marriage without love can be borne, but not so without affection.#
1|85|Love is blind, but marriage will return its sight.#
1|43|Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.#
1|56|Love is more pleasing than marriage, because romances are more amusing than history.#
1|196|Marriage is and will remain the most important voyage of discovery that man will undertake: all other knowledge of existence, compared to that of a married man, is superficial as he and he alone has really reached the heart of existence.#
1|34|A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too brief.#
1|109|A couple will spend three weeks learning about each other, three months loving each other, three years arguing with each other and thirty years tolerating each other. This cycle is repeated by the children.#
2|188|It is in the arms of a mother that tenderness is learnt, and it is in the those of a lover where it grows.#
2|64|The only beautiful eyes are those which look at you with tenderness.#
2|0|Unpleasantness poisons love, tenderness strengthens it.#
2|68|Tenderness sometimes means there is no longer love between a couple, just happiness.#
2|212|Tenderness kills. The absence of tenderness is an assassin.#
2|122|Love is not doing extraordinary or heroic deeds, but doing ordinary things with feeling.#
2|141|A finger bowl does not render hands clean, any more than a kiss on the hand demonstrates tenderness.#
2|104|Tenderness is stronger than hardheartedness, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than violence.#
2|143|Ah, tenderness! This state of being that makes you recognise your own feelings in those of others.#
2|147|There is nothing more complete than a couple going through time accepting that tenderness takes over from passion.#
3|195|The happy couple who find each other in love defy the universe and time they are self-contained, they accomplish the absolute.#
3|133|That which is more complicated and more confusing than universal harmony: a married couple.#
3|153|The insolent spectacle of a couple who have known each other for twenty years, who love each other, who tell each other repeatedly, and who die happy, fill most others with bitterness.#
3|44|There are four things that make a couple: a man and his feminine side, a woman and her masculine side.#
3|83|A successful couple is more than a man and a woman. It is stability and flexibility.#
3|124|It is not enough for a couple to speak, they must also understand one another.#
3|70|The Couple is based on a myth of a single entity. As if we were only one. Whereas we are without doubt two.#
3|170|Life as a couple is a natural state of affairs, fidelity is a moral state, infidelity a natural immorality.#
3|157|What is a couple? The same soul and two bodies.#
3|202|Life as a couple is built on a trap, an attack. For each individual, it is a question of taking possession of the other, taking up the challenge: ''How can I make him/her change?, How can I make him/her like me?''.#
4|139|When the heavens want to save a man, he is given affection for protection.#
4|81|A crowd is not company, faces are nothing but a picture gallery, and conversation nothing but the noise of cymbals where there is no affection.#
4|171|Affection is a bland sentiment it is the love of lukewarm people.#
4|98|Most affections are merely habits or duties from which there is no courage to break away.#
4|209|Tears show affection, but do not provide the cure.#
4|49|The most noble of conquests are those from the heart and resulting from affection.#
4|63|I have frequently remarked that people hasten to show affection the moment they betray you.#
4|150|It is not because others die that our affection for them weakens, it is because we die as well.#
4|202|It is better to be invited with affection to dine on weeds, than to be invited to dine on fine veal when hated.#
4|28|When a snake vows affection to you, carry it around your neck like a necklace.#
5|137|Love, Love when you have us in your grip, we can kiss goodbye to prudence.#
5|2|Love makes time go by, and time makes love go by.#
5|62|Love blesses those it brings to life with eloquence.#
5|208|Love is the fabric of nature that the imagination has embroidered.#
5|71|Love raises the spirits of those who have, and who give to those who do not.#
5|42|Love is merely the novel of the heart, it is pleasure that makes the story.#
5|156|Love is selfishness for two.#
5|5|When love is torn apart, only the edges can be resewn.#
5|95|Love is made from the desire to understand and soon, by dint of repeated failures, this desire dies and, unless it turns into that painful affection, that loyalty, that pity love dies as well.#
5|35|To love is not looking at each other but looking together in the same direction.#
6|165|To have friends who you wish to be like you, is a form of narcissism.#
6|0|A humble friend in my village is worth more than sixteen influential courtiers.#
6|0|In times of drought we know a good spring and in times of adversity a good friend.#
6|2|Love yourself, and you will have friends.#
6|119|Everyone says he is a friend but only a fool relies on it /the word is easy to say / the deed harder to follow.#
6|132|If your friend is blind in one eye, look at him sideways on.#
6|37|To have lots of friends, is to have no friends.#
6|74|The only way to have a friend, is to be one.#
6|76|True friends come together in times of hardship.#
6|7|When misfortune knocks at the door, friends sleep.#
7|115|Desire...it is the desire for the desire of someone else...#
7|178|Desire is frequently the bridge for love... The try is scored, so, as rugbymen say, convert it.#
7|30|He who lives in hope, dies in need.#
7|2|He who desires is full of suffering.#
7|149|A day comes when you are missing one single thing, and it is not the object of your desire, it is desire itself.#
7|166|There are two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.#
7|31|What makes us desire and love, is a gentle and terrible force, stronger than beauty.#
7|32|Each desire has enriched my being far more than the untrue possession of the very object of my desire.#
7|89|Desire and love can be confused, love is the desire for an object which is proportional to the entirety of the desire.#
7|173|To find delight in pleasure, one's desires must encounter hurdles... for, to enjoy constant pleasure is to enjoy no pleasure at all the man who desires nothing is undoubtedly more unhappy than he who suffers.#
8|108|Love is the only sentiment that is not affected by the past or the future.#
8|148|If love were not the most noble of feelings, it would not be used as an excuse for other feelings.#
8|22|He who loses himself in his passion has lost less than he who has lost his passion.#
8|48|The extreme sufferings that can forever ruin the emotional life of an individual, is only found amongst those who have experienced passion.#
8|208|Feelings are the winds that fill the sails of a ship sometimes they submerge it, but without them it could not sail.#
8|16|We respect reason, but we love our feelings.#
8|124|Conscience is the voice of the soul, feelings are the voice of the body.#
8|16|Feelings are like typhus and the plague. Stop fighting them, they return.#
8|56|All sentiments are exaggerated, and they are sentiments because they exaggerate.#
8|36|Man is more able to vanquish natural obstacles than he is to master himself. In the first case, he proceeds with calm and patience and in the second undergoes training in feelings.#
9|8|Friendship is like the earth that is sown.#
9|3|Real friendship does not freeze over in winter.#
9|163|Women can easily make friends with a man, but to maintain the friendship,  it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.#
9|138|What is commonly called friendship is no more than a partnership a reciprocal regard for one another's interests, and an exchange of good offices in a word, a mere traffic, wherein self-love always proposes to be a gainer. #
9|138|However rare real love is, it is less so than a real friendship.#
9|33|It is said friendship is not being with ones friends when they are right, but being with them even when they are wrong.#
9|34|They had shared tastes and different trades: this is the very recipe for friendship.#
9|142|Friendship is love without his wings.#
9|13|One of the great joys of this life is friendship and one of the great joys of friendship is having someone with whom to confide a secret.#
9|11|To offer friendship to someone who wants love is like giving bread to someone dying of thirst.#
10|88|The spirit seeks and the heart discovers.#
10|35|It is only with the heart that one can see well. Important things are invisible to the eye.#
10|47|The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing about.#
10|0|When the heart speaks, the spirit is nothing but a fool.#
10|203|Such is the destiny of hearts which are drawn to each other and which are in tune with each other each influences the inclinations of the other. One moment there is laughter, one moment tears.#
10|0|If the heart yearns, the mouth waters if the heart feels sorrow, the eyes cry.#
10|65|Words expressed from bonded hearts are as scented as perfume.#
10|43|Words of the heart borne from the mouth are foolish, but the words of a wise man are found in his heart.#
10|152|My heart is at rest when I am near you that is how it is meant to be, and the only way it can be happy.#
10|57|Our two hearts will be two huge flaming torches / Which will reflect their two lights / In our two spirits, these twinned mirrors.#
11|24|The only true language of the world is a kiss.#
11|110|A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.#
11|135|The first kiss, is the union of two scented flowers from whose blended scents a third soul is born.#
11|4|The bite from the mouth that is loved is better than the kiss from another.#
11|61|It is the passion in a kiss that renders it sweet it is the affection behind the kiss that makes it sacred.#
11|204|Drink from her rose-like mouth / Her breath in a kiss.#
11|97|A legitimate kiss can never compare with a stolen kiss.#
11|206|What is a kiss?  A host of licking flames.#
11|24|Oh a kiss! Mysterious potion welcomed by parched lips!#
11|12|There are two kisses I will never forget: the last one from my mother and the first I gave to you.#
12|0|A woman, how extraordinary when one is without a woman, one desires one when one has a woman, one suffers as a result.#
12|0|A wife will never be as desirable as a concubine: a concubine never as exciting as a forbidden lover never as frustrating as the woman out of reach.#
12|202|Who will find a strong woman? She is more precious than all the jewels found in the four corners of the earth.#
12|78|A woman is in turn both a joy and a bane in the life of man.#
12|121|A woman in love is unknowingly audacious.#
12|157|The main ambition for women is to inspire love.#
12|201|Women will sometimes forgive the man who rushes an opportunity, but never he who misses it.#
12|120|A woman is the future of man.#
12|45|Women are fake in countries where men are tyrants. Everywhere, violence creates guile.#
12|136|Women are extreme: they are worse or better than men.#
13|54|Jealousy is the tyrant in the kingdom of love.#
13|164|Jealousy extinguishes love like cinders extinguish fire.#
13|138|Jealousy is not love, but self-love.#
13|58|Jealousy is the sister of love in the same way that the devil is the brother of angels.#
13|42|Jealousy is merely a silly child of pride, or it is the sickness of a fool.#
13|111|Jealousy is a lack of respect for the person one loves.#
13|21|Men believe they are jealous of some women because they are in love with them it is not true they are in love with them because they are jealous of them that is quite different.#
13|210|Jealousy sees all, except that which is.#
13|99|One is sure to love when one is jealous, just as one is sure of living when one hurts oneself.#
13|176|Jealousy blinds an effected heart, and, without questioning, believes all that it fears.#
14|50|Intimacy doesn't come without the occasional slap.#
14|26|You would not kiss the wife of your neighbour, unless your own had succumbed to his caresses.#
14|40|The most delightful caresses are those from the eyes.#
14|105|Having children is pointless if their little heads and their little hands along with their smiles and their touches were not at the centre of our being and our heart.#
14|31|The flesh of women is nourished with loving touches like the honeybee is with flowers.#
14|193|Caresses and punches in the gob are the highs and lows of love.#
14|161|Caresses are as necessary to the existence of feelings as leaves are to that of trees. Without them, love dies at the root.#
14|125|Desire is expressed through loving touches like thoughts are through language.#
14|179|Human love is distinguished from the stupid rutting of animals by only two heavenly activities: the caress and the kiss.#
14|116|If you do not know what to do with your hands, turn them into caresses.#
15|65|I have yet to meet a person who loves virtue as much as the beauty of the body.#
15|198|Beauty is merely the promise of happiness.#
15|57|There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.#
15|206|No external grace is complete if internal beauty fails to invigorate it. Beauty of the soul spreads like a mysterious light on the beauty of the body.#
15|159|Beauty in young women compensates for vivaciousness. In old women, vivaciousness compensates for beauty.#
15|166|Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.#
15|114|You have the beauty I adore / Because it taught me how to love / And understand ugliness / Which is the mirror / Where I may contemplate / My truth.#
15|150|Leave the pretty women to men with no imagination.#
15|193|Ugliness is greatly better than beauty because it lasts.#
15|102|What is beauty? An agreement, a currency, which only exists in certain times and places.#
16|0|When a man is spell-bound by a woman, only she can cure him of his folly.#
16|139|When the heavens want to save a man, they send him love.#
16|113|The most important thing for a man, is that he takes all the happiness and all the suffering possible from the woman he loves.#
16|134|I choose the man who will develop and broaden all in me that is masculine, and he chooses me to expand all in him that is feminine.#
16|197|Men are more driven by a blind desire rather than by reason.#
16|146|Today, if a man holds a door open for a woman, it is highly likely that he is the doorman.#
16|117|A bachelor is a man who missed the opportunity to make a woman unhappy.#
16|160|The only time a woman succeeds in changing a man, is when he is a baby.#
16|0|Far from home, a man is respected for what he appears to be at home a man is respected for what he is.#
16|205|Men are always sincere. Their sincerity changes, that's all.#
17|16|A charm is something that captivates rather than pleases.#
17|73|He had that unwitting charm, with a powerful magnetism, that can only be called ''him''.#
17|67|All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.#
17|17|You know what charm is: it is hearing yourself reply yes without having asked a clear question.#
17|166|An intelligent woman lacks the indefinable charm of fragility.#
17|188|Fix a smile on your face, it will add charm.#
17|167|What is allowed has no charm, what is forbidden is exciting.#
17|39|Women without charm are like poets who do not read.#
17|52|Charming men charm all, including doors.#
17|103|A woman loses her charm as soon as she no longer believes in it.#
18|200|To respect a woman, is to imagine friendship with her: which should not exclude the game of seduction, and even, in some instances, desire and love.#
18|155|To seduce a woman, [...] is within the abilities of any fool. But it is also important to know how to break up: this is where real men stand out.#
18|10|A man who wants to seduce a woman has to climb mountains, a girl who wants to seduce a man has only to get through a paper wall.#
18|164|There is nothing as pleasing as a seductive man, but nothing as odious as a seducer.#
18|196|For each woman, there is a lover. She only needs luck to meet him.#
18|129|The highest form of seduction is not to express ones feelings. It is to arouse belief that they may exist.#
18|92|One of the ultimate advantages of men is that we do not need to be handsome to seduce.#
18|169|To seduce is not to die. It is to live in the eyes of the other person.#
18|144|You stand no chance seducing by saying: ''You're not bad''. At the very least you need to say, ''You are without comparison in this world'', that is the minimum a woman will accept.#
18|84|The human face is, before anything, the tool of seduction.#
19|133|Friendship, is loyalty, and if I were asked what is loyalty? I would reply that it is friendship!#
19|170|Fidelity is when love is stronger than instinct.#
19|183|Tenderness is respect and wonder of free knowledge across the very fibre of fidelity.#
19|6|A faithful friend is a strong tower, and he who finds him has found a treasure.#
19|138|The self-torture undergone to remain faithful to the one's loved-one, is a bad as an infidelity.#
19|190|Being faithful means, quite frequently, enchaining the other.#
19|77|Fidelity combines, idleness, fear, calculation, pacifism, fatigue, and sometimes fidelity.#
19|123|The duty to everlasting fidelity only serves to create adulterers.#
19|184|The love which lives in storms and grows at the bosom of betrayals, cannot always stand up to the calm of fidelity.#
19|86|Fidelity is no more natural to a man than a cage is to a tiger.#
20|2|An unshared delight is but half a delight.#
20|118|I don't know what conspiracy of sanctimonious hypocrites and old biddies managed, in two centuries, to discredit the word pleasure.#
20|136|The most thoughtful of pleasures is to make others happy.#
20|101|Those who deny being fundamentally motivated in their quest for pleasure are foolhardy individuals who would have already disappeared from this biosphere a long time ago, had they really believed this were true.#
20|168|Man is born to enjoy pleasure he feels it, no other proof is required.#
20|129|Pleasure is the happiness of fools. Happiness is the pleasure of the wise.#
20|158|The pleasures of love are, to my mind, the real pleasures of physical life.#
20|126|Joy derived from love only lasts a moment, broken hearts last a life-time.#
20|138|The pleasure of love is to love, and more happiness is derived from the passion one has than that which one gives.#
20|187|Any pleasure that becomes a habit is no longer a pleasure but a chore.#
21|19|Lovers dream, married couples are wide-eyed.#
21|166|One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.#
21|27|Many a man in love with a grain of beauty commits the fatal error of marrying the entire girl.#
21|172|To be in love, is to see in the one who is loved what one wishes to see, and not what is found.#
21|55|The strategy of love is only employed when one is not in love.#
21|191|I never loved, I was in love with love.#
21|51|When one falls in love, one never knows with whom it will be but one knows that the fall could be fatal.#
21|128|To be in love, is to create oneself a religion where the god is fallible.#
21|23|It is never clear why one falls in love with someone and this is how one discovers one is.#
21|56|A man in love is a man who wants to be more lovable than possible and this is why all people in love are ridiculous.#
22|126|To be happy, one needs to hide away.#
22|84|To be happy, one must think of the happiness of others.#
22|159|If one wanted simply to be happy, that could easily be achieved. But one wants to be happier than everyone else and that is practically impossible, because we believe others are happier than they actually are.#
22|130|When a man says: ''I am happy'': he simply means: '' I have problems that don't get me down''.#
22|101|To be happy is at the same time being able to desire and being able to feel pleasure once both the longing and the needs of well-being are satisfied, whilst waiting again for the feeling of desire to restart the process.#
22|174|Only he who is happy can spread joy around him.#
22|123|There are no external signposts for happiness, one must read the heart of a happy man.#
22|1|Happy people have no history.#
22|18|To show one's happiness is a duty being openly happy gives other people the proof that happiness is possible.#
22|16|It is quite true that we should think of the happiness of others, but insufficient mention is made of what we can do better for those we love and that is also to be happy.#
23|35|To love is not looking at each other but looking together in the same direction.#
23|211|And sometimes hidden in a gaze, in a smile, lie the words that one never knew how to say.#
23|198|The eyes are the main weapon of virtuous coquetry. All can be said with the eyes, and yet a look can be denied.#
23|24|Every true gaze is a desire.#
23|90|What the voice may hide, the eyes will speak.#
23|87|The eyes have one language everywhere.#
23|175|Love is blind? What a joke! In a game where the eyes mean everything!#
23|107|Nothing is more admirable than a man and a wife having the same outlook on the world, thus disconcerting their enemies and delighting their friends.#
23|33|Each of us is unaware of the colour of the iris of nearly all our friends. The eye is the tool for looking it remains an eye only to eye specialists and artists.#
23|60|Being alive is to be seen in the eyes of a loving gaze.#
24|90|Real disappointment comes only from those one loves.#
24|194|In novels, love is wonderful because here the heroes always have all the qualities the heroines dreams of. Whereas in life! ... What a disappointment!#
24|25|Expecting too much, is to open oneself to disappointment.#
24|91|Disappointments do not kill and hopes give life.#
24|82|Disppointment is a feeling which never fails to disenchant.#
24|96|Love starts by the bedazzlement of an unsuspecting soul and culminates in disappointment for an all-demanding ego.#
24|192|Disappointment is much less painful when success has not been promised in advance.#
24|189|All disappointments, thoughts and expectations are secondary. The  single irreversible misfortune is the death of those one loves.#
24|38|The fool will chase pleasures in life and will encounter disappointment the wise man avoids trouble.#
24|20|As soon as one asks for something from someone, then one expects something from him, disappointment will knock on your door.#
25|31|I have enemies and I boast about it I believe I deserved them.#
25|0|Thousands of friends, that's not a lot: one single enemy is already one too many.#
25|137|Better a wise enemy than a fool for a friend.#
25|2|Beware of an appeased enemy.#
25|182|Forgive an enemy, you will gain friends.#
25|29|Say good things about your friends, say nothing about your enemies.#
25|100|The best way to rid oneself of an enemy is to turn him into a friend.#
25|166|I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their intellects. A man can never be too careful in the choice of his enemies.#
25|180|Have enemies! Your friends will tire of talking about you your enemies, never!#
25|199|Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.#
26|53|The soul of a lover lives in the body of his lover.#
26|182|The lover knows only his desire, he only sees what he takes.#
26|151|A man is an unattractive lover if he desires you more than he loves you.#
26|138|Lovers only see the defects of their mistresses once their charm has worn.#
26|207|Good lovers are made by women. Men have to be taught everything... and must certainly be left to believe the reverse.#
26|108|A lover teaches a woman everything a husband does not.#
26|112|But what is the worst trap for lovers than to live in peace.#
26|138|The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.#
26|108|It is easier being a lover than a husband, for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than it is to say pretty things from time to time.#
26|23|When a woman has a profession, she has no need for a husband a lover is enough.#
27|181|Each man's freedom sees in that of others not boundaries but an addition, the man with the greatest liberty is he who has greater relationships with his fellow creatures.#
27|65|Not too secluded not too many relationships a happy medium this is the wisest way.#
27|84|Relationships light up the soul.#
27|18|Other people are not our hell because they are other people, they create our hell when they refuse to begin a relationship with us.#
27|131|The most banal relationship holds the tiny bud of a fulfilling friendship.#
27|127|Relationships are undoubtedly the mirror in which one is able to discover oneself.#
27|154|A monstrous aberration makes men believe that language was born to facilitate reciprocated relationships.#
27|145|Relationships of the flesh find justification on a spiritual plain, otherwise, men would be indistinguishable from animals.#
27|27|There is a spiritual dimension to each relationship. When two people join together, it is because the spirit wishes it so.#
27|46|Passionate relationships are sealed more easily than they are broken.#
28|93|It takes little to encourage a smile, and a smile is enough to make anything possible.#
28|14|A smile costs less than electricity and gives more light.#
28|41|A smile is a secret key that opens many hearts.#
28|72|Don't wait to be happy to smile, smile to become happy.#
28|177|I know a way to stop getting old: welcome the years as they come with a smile... A smile remains young.#
28|106|The smile you give will always be returned.#
28|185|A smile the bait for a kiss.#
28|35| A smile is frequently important. One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. And the quality of a smile can take one's breath away.#
28|11|Never stop smiling even if you are sad because you never know who could fall in love with your smile.#
28|15|A smile costs only the pleasure of giving or receiving it, but offers you the rainbow in the rainy sky.#
29|140|Friendship without trust is like a flower with no scent.#
29|34|There are three dimensions to love: depth, duration and trust.#
29|75|It is not so much help from our friends which help us, but our trust in that help.#
29|94|If you have confidence in yourself, you inspire confidence in others.#
29|191|Your friends who foretell your misfortunes quickly come to wish them upon you  - and they will bring them about in order to retain your confidence.#
29|138|Sincerity is an openness of heart it is found in a very few people, and that which we see commonly is not it, but a subtle dissimulation, to gain the confidence of others.#
29|98|At no cost should an individual, through his betrayal, discourage us from ever trusting others. He would have won too much, if he crushed in us our ability to trust in our fellow men.#
29|163|People who give us their total confidence thereby believe they have the right to ours. This is an error of judgement: gifts don't buy rights.#
29|186|Man, liar such as he is, detests nothing more than lies, and the most effective way to gain his trust is with sincerity.#
29|79|Confidence is frequently one of the strengths of idleness.#
