What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACLife cannot go on without much forgetting.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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