Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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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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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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