Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZACLife cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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