Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
HONORE DE BALZACThose who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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