Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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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.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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