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 BALZACIt is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Hatred 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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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