A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
HONORE DE BALZACOur heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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