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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
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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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
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.
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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
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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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Heart Money Treasure Yourself
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex

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