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.
HONORE DE BALZACIn intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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