Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACA lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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