To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
HONORE DE BALZACThere are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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