Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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