Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACAll happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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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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