Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
HONORE DE BALZACWhen women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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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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