The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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