Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACEquality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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We love because we love.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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 see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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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