Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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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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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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 light diet, but very stimulating.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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