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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Honore de Balzac

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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