What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACOne hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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