The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACTalent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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