What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACThe motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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