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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about spring, enemies, youth, human imperfections, world, life

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

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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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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

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