People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
HONORE DE BALZACA 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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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