Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
HONORE DE BALZACA man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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.
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