Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
HONORE DE BALZACIn diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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We love because we love.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or 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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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