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.
HONORE DE BALZACTo be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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