The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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.
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