There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZACThe good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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