Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
HONORE DE BALZACWhen 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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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