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.
HONORE DE BALZACA lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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 man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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We love because we love.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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