Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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 makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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