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" First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. "
Honore de Balzac
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" A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. "
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" We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. "
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" A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. "
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" It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. "
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" Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. "
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" Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. "
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" There is something great and terrible about suicide. "
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" When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. "
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" Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. "
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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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" The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. "
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" The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. "
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" The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. "
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" Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. "
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" In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. "
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" It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. "
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" What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? "
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