Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
HONORE DE BALZACHe who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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 the poetry of the senses.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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