Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
HONORE DE BALZACHe who best knows the world will love it least.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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