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.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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