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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

Honore de Balzac

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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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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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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