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 BALZACA 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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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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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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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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