Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
HONORE DE BALZACExcess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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