Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
HONORE DE BALZACPoverty 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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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