What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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We love because we love.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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The 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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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