We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more one judges, the less one loves.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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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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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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