In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
HONORE DE BALZACIn diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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 more you judge, the less you love.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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.
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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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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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We love because we love.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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