First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Women 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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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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