The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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