How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
HONORE DE BALZACTalent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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