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 BALZACOur heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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