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.
HONORE DE BALZACPower is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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