The more you judge, the less you love.
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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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