At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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