Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZACIn diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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We love because we love.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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