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.
HONORE DE BALZACHow natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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