A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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