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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Honore de Balzac

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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