Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
HONORE DE BALZACDo you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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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 man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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