If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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