Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZACIf 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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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 motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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