Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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