A mother who is really a mother is never free.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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