Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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It 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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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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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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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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