We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZAC
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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We love because we love.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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