Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZACSolitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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How 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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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