Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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