Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
HONORE DE BALZACAs 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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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We love because we love.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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