Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACIt 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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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We love because we love.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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