All human power is a compound of time and patience.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred 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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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