The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACThough the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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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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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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We love because we love.
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