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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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 may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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