As a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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