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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Honore de Balzac

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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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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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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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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 woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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