Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
HONORE DE BALZACHow sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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