A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
HONORE DE BALZACAs a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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It 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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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