Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
HONORE DE BALZACWe cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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 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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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