Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACHow 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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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We love because we love.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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