Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
HONORE DE BALZACOld 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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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