As a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACPassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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