Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZACA lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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.
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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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