The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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