Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
HONORE DE BALZACCan 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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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