Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
HONORE DE BALZACEvents are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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