The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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