The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Like 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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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