What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACGod 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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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