Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
HONORE DE BALZACThe duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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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 greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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