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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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