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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Honore de Balzac

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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