Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
HONORE DE BALZACPoetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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We love because we love.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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