How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZACThere is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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