Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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