Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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