As a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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We love because we love.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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