Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
HONORE DE BALZACHow can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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