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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

Honore de Balzac

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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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 delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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