Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACOld 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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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