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.
HONORE DE BALZACPoetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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