Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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 you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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We love because we love.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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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 first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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