Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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We love because we love.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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