Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
HONORE DE BALZACA good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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A 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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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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