A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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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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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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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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