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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 Balzac

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
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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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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