A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
HONORE DE BALZACLove, 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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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