Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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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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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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