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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

Honore de Balzac

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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Excellence Family Generosity Money Poor Reasons Relative Rich Rule
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Husband Lover Run Thinking Way
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
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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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
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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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow

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