A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
HONORE DE BALZACDo you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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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 lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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