As a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACGive to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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