It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
HONORE DE BALZACWhere poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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