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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

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Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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We love because we love.

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Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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