Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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