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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.

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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 alway...more

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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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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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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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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to ...more

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Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

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The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

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Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever decei...more

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All happiness depends on courage and work.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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The more one judges, the less one loves.