The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACWe love because we love.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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