Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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