Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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