The more one judges, the less one loves.
HONORE DE BALZACIf we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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