Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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