Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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