He who best knows the world will love it least.
HONORE DE BALZACPoetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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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 knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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