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.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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