Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
HONORE DE BALZACEvery moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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