Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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