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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Honore de Balzac

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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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