The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACA man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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