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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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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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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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We love because we love.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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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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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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