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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more you judge, the less you love.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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