As a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACCoffee 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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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 natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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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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