Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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