Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
HONORE DE BALZACAt fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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