Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more one judges, the less one loves.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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