First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Hatred 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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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