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.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred 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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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