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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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