How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
HONORE DE BALZACIn the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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