Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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We love because we love.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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