True 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.
HONORE DE BALZACA lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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