Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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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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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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