God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
HONORE DE BALZACTalent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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