The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZACGratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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