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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

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Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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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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Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

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Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

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A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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