Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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How 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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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