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.
HONORE DE BALZACArt’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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