What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACWe cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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We love because we love.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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