Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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We love because we love.
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