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 BALZACWe love because we love.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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