The more you judge, the less you love.
HONORE DE BALZACA lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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