Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
HONORE DE BALZACThose who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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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 man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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