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 BALZACCoffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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