Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
HONORE DE BALZACWhere poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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