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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Honore de Balzac

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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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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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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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