Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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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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