No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
HONORE DE BALZACHe 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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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 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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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