Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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