Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
HONORE DE BALZACEverybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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