Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZACIf we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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