The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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