Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACTemperament is the thermometer of character.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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