God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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