There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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