Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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 is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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