Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACHe who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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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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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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