Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
HONORE DE BALZACLife cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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