What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACNoble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Women, 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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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