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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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| There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. |
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| There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. |
| Power; Talent |
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| They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding... |
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| Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts |
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| To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. |
| Killing; Relationships; Relatives |
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| To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer |
| Men and Women |
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| To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. |
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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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| Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. |
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| Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. |
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| We cannot confront solitude without moral resources. |
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| We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. |
| Happiness; Misfortune |
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| What is art? Nature concentrated. |
| Art; Nature |
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| When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. |
| Love; Men and Women; Women |
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| Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position |
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| With monuments as with men, position means everything. |
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| Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her |
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