Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
HONORE DE BALZACAll human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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