We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZACSome day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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