Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
HONORE DE BALZACA 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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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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