The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
HONORE DE BALZACMany people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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