Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
HONORE DE BALZACThe motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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