There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
HONORE DE BALZACThe motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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We love because we love.
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