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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

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Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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All happiness depends on courage and work.

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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