Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
HONORE DE BALZACCourtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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 great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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