What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACGratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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