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 BALZACLife cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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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 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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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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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