A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
HONORE DE BALZACExcess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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