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- The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
- It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs…
- Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make…
- Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
- Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and…
- Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment…
- The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all…
- Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
- All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to…
- Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret…
- Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
- All human power is a compound of time and patience.
- Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
- A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded…
- All we are is in the soul.
- They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
- Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks,…
- There is nothing original; all is reflected light.
- Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear…
- Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.
- All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
- A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she…
- My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one.
- Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings…
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