People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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