Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
STENDHALFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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