Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Can 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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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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