Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
HONORE DE BALZACAt fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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