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.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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