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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 Balzac

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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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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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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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