What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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