The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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