The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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