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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac 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.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac One hour of love has a whole life in it.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac
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