Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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We love because we love.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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