A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
HONORE DE BALZACGratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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