Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
HONORE DE BALZACA 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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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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