It is too much for a husband ...

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.
It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.
 Jean de la Bruyere

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If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Quotes from the same author

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
 Jean de La Bruyère
Love and friendship exclude each other.
 Jean de La Bruyère
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
 Jean de la Bruyere
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
 Jean de la Bruyere
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
 Jean de la Bruyere