How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
HONORE DE BALZACOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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