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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Honore de Balzac

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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