Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
HONORE DE BALZACWhere poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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