Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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