Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is the poetry of the senses.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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