The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACVice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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