One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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We love because we love.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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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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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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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How 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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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