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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.

Honore de Balzac

The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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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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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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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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