The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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