Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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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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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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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