Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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