The more one judges, the less one loves.
HONORE DE BALZACPoverty 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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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