The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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We love because we love.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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