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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Honore de Balzac

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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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