Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
HONORE DE BALZACOur worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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