Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
HONORE DE BALZACIf you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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