There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
HONORE DE BALZACNo man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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It 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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