Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
HONORE DE BALZACVirtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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