At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZACAll human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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