Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
HONORE DE BALZACAs a rule, only the poor are generous.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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