Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
HONORE DE BALZACThe boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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