Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACAt fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with 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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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