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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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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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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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