In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
HONORE DE BALZACHow can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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