Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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