No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to 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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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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 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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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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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