If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
HONORE DE BALZACLike hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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