The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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 is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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