True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
HONORE DE BALZACPower is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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We love because we love.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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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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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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When 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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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