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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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