As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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