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.
HONORE DE BALZACLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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