How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZACDo you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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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 man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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