Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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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 heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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