In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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