There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZACWhat makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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