We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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