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As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Honore de Balzac

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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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Dare Love Motive Natural Woman
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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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Anticipation Fear Greatness Lying Ourselves
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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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Event History Lying Official Reality Reason Secret
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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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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