How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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