The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
HONORE DE BALZACThe boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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We love because we love.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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