Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZACEvents are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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