What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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