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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

Honore de Balzac

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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 naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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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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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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