First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZACMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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.
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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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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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 duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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