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.
HONORE DE BALZACEvery moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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We love because we love.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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