The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
HONORE DE BALZACLife is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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