Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
HONORE DE BALZACPower is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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