A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
HONORE DE BALZACOne hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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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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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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