Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
HONORE DE BALZACLove, 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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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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