He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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