Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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