Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
HONORE DE BALZACThe victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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