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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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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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We love because we love.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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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.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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