The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
HONORE DE BALZACOur worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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