Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACNo woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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