Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
HONORE DE BALZACHow natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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We love because we love.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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