As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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