Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
HONORE DE BALZACIt 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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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We love because we love.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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