The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
HONORE DE BALZACThere are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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 press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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