The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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