People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
HONORE DE BALZACCoffee 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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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