Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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We love because we love.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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