Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZACDo you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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