Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACNoble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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