He who best knows the world will love it least.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred 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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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