The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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 a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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