The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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We love because we love.
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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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