Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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We love because we love.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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