Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
HONORE DE BALZACPassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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