Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
HONORE DE BALZACBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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