People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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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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