Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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We love because we love.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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