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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

Honore de Balzac

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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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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 hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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