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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Honore de Balzac

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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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