Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
HONORE DE BALZACIn the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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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 great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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 are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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