Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
HONORE DE BALZACVirtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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