Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
HONORE DE BALZACEvery moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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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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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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