As a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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Though 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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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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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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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