Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
HONORE DE BALZACTemperament is the thermometer of character.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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We love because we love.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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