Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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