Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZACOur heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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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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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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 good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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