Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
HONORE DE BALZACThe duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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