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 BALZACDo you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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