Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
HONORE DE BALZACExcess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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