Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
HONORE DE BALZACThe good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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