In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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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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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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