Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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