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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac

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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
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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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice

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