Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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