To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
HONORE DE BALZACNoble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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We love because we love.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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