A mother who is really a mother is never free.
HONORE DE BALZACMany people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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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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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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