Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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