Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZACWhat makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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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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