Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
HONORE DE BALZACDeath 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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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