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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Honore de Balzac

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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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