Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue 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 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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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