The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACHow can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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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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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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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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