Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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