Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
HONORE DE BALZACLike 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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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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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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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