The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZACGive to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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