A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
HONORE DE BALZACAs a rule, only the poor are generous.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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