People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
HONORE DE BALZACLiberty 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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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We love because we love.
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