Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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