Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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