Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACMan is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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