One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACEvery moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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