Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
HONORE DE BALZACHow natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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