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.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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We love because we love.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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