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| The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Events | |
| There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. | | Power; Talent | |
| They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding... | | Passion | |
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| Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | |
| To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Love | |
| Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. | | Uncategorized | |
| Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. | | Uncategorized | |
| We cannot confront solitude without moral resources. | | Uncategorized | |
| We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. | | Happiness; Misfortune | |
| What is art? Nature concentrated. | | Art; Nature | |
| 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 | |
| Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position | | Uncategorized | |
| With monuments as with men, position means everything. | | Uncategorized | |
| Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her | | Women | |
