A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
HONORE DE BALZACAll human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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