The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
HONORE DE BALZACTemperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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