Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
HONORE DE BALZACFirst love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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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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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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The 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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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