How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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