If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
HONORE DE BALZACMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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