Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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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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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any 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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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 as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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