Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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